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May 08 2018
Opinion
OPINION: Him, Too
Until Monday evening New York’s Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was a public champion of the #MeToo movement. Now he appears to be the latest sickening example of the scale and insidiousness of the cruelty that movement is confronting. He resigned late Monday after The New Yorker magazine published an article in which four women accused him of abusing them physically and emotionally.
New York Times (News)Aug 28 2019
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ends once-promising presidential bid
Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand dropped out of the presidential race Wednesday, abruptly ending a campaign that once looked poised to ride strong #MeToo credentials to formidability but instead collapsed amid surprisingly low polling and major fundraising struggles.
“I know this isn’t the result that we wanted,” the 52-year-old New York senator said in an online video in which she didn’t
Associated PressOct 06 2018
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Brett Kavanaugh confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, cementing conservative control of the nation’s highest court
The Senate voted Saturday to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice, solidifying conservative control of the highest court in the land for years to come and ending a bitter battle over his nomination.
Kavanaugh's confirmation was not just a chance for Republicans to shift the court to the right for what could be decades but was also a test of how public officials
USA TODAYSep 15 2021
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New York Governor Asks Facebook to Censor Pro-Life ‘Misinformation’ About Abortion
New York’s brand new governor wants Facebook to censor pro-life “misinformation” about abortion.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, sent a letter Monday to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg requesting that the social media giant increase efforts to censor pro-life “misinformation” in light of Texas’ new law banning abortions after babies’ heartbeats can be detected.
Hochul, who
The Daily SignalFeb 28 2020
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Weinstein Convicted
“Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday of rape and sexual assault against two women… He was acquitted on the most serious charges, two counts of predatory sexual assault, each carrying a sentence of up to life in prison.” (AP News)
Both sides celebrate the verdict as a victory for the #MeToo movement:
“It took enormous courage for Miriam Haleyi, Jessica Mann, Annabella Sciorra,
The Flip SideNov 06 2019
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Mainstream media largely ignores ABC's Epstein scandal; CNN’s scant coverage is lampooned
Mainstream media outlets have largely ignored the Project Veritas bombshell that ABC News killed a story that would have exposed the now-deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein three years ago, with some having themselves been recently embarrassed by Project Veritas, and others still smarting from their own alleged #MeToo coverups.
Fox News found no coverage on CNN, MSNBC, CBS News, or
Fox News (Online News)Mar 13 2019
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The Astonishing Hypocrisy of Media Matters
If there’s one thing we can absolutely count on in our post-ethical partisan era, it’s that for every scandal, there is, in short order, a similar — sometimes astoundingly similar — scandal on the other side. Sometimes, the comparisons are just so on-the-nose that you have a hard time believing they’re real. Remember when Virginia’s Democratic lieutenant governor hired Brett Kavanaugh’s
National Review (News)Apr 28 2019
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Klobuchar says Biden will have to continue to deal with criticism over Anita Hill treatment
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar said in an interview that aired Sunday that Anita Hill’s 1991 testimony during the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas motivated her to get into politics.
Klobuchar, a Democratic senator from Minnesota, said during an interview on NBC’s “Meet The Press” that she “watched every moment” of the hearing as a
Fox News (Online News)Oct 17 2019
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Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed threats to free speech in a rare public address on Thursday
Speaking to a live audience at Georgetown University, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended Facebook's role in providing a voice to more than 2 billion people of around the world, and why he feels it's essential to protect freedom of expression on the internet.
"People having the power to express themselves at scale is a new kind of force in the world — a Fifth Estate alongside the
Business InsiderOct 15 2019
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Ronan Farrow: 'Catch And Kill' Tactics Protected Both Weinstein And Trump
Ronan Farrow's 2017 exposé of the sexual misconduct allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein in The New Yorker earned him a Pulitzer Prize and helped usher in the #MeToo movement. Now, in his new book, Catch and Kill, Farrow writes about the extreme tactics Weinstein allegedly used in an attempt to keep him from reporting the story.
"Harvey Weinstein's attorneys ... signed a
NPR (Online News)